Oxford University

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The REACH Programme is a 7 year, £15m programme funded by the UK's Department for International Development (DfID). This project, led by the University of Oxford, involves a research consortium of global leaders in water science, policy and practice. It aims to increase water security for 2.5 million people in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia by 2022.

The post holder will lead the theoretical, methodological and empirical poverty analysis in the REACH programme. The post holder will be responsible for advancing and synthesising poverty analysis linked explicitly to different water security dynamics across core research programmes and associated Commissioned Research project within the global research programme.

The successful candidate must hold a relevant PhD/DPhil with post-qualification research experience in advanced poverty analysis with significant applied knowledge and a strong publication record. You will have familiarity with a portfolio of statistical or mathematical programming software working with large and longitudinal datasets, including interest in new techniques such as cupola functions, machine learning or extreme value distribution analysis. Interest in methodological advances to collect, synthesise and simplify poverty metrics, such as mobile phone collection of subjective welfare or multidimensional poverty is essential.

Closing date for applications is 2 October with interviews on 16 October.